Algiers / Alger Hotel Terminus 1920s Louis Levy cars

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Alger / Algiers, Algeria - Hotel Terminus c.1920s - old motor cars and horse drawn traffic.
• Publisher:  LL - Louis Levy No. 83
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Algiers /æl'd???rz/ (Arabic: ???????? al-Jaza’ir, Algerian Arabic and Kabyle: Dzayer [dzæ'jer]; French: Alger, pronounced: [al?e]) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, and the second largest city in the Maghreb (after Casablanca). According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630.^[1] A recent UN estimate of the urban agglomeration (metropolitan area) puts the population at 3,354,000 as of 2007.^[2]

Called El-Bahdja (??????) or alternatively Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The city name is derived from the Arabic word ??????? al-jaza’ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off the city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525. Al-jaza’ir is itself a truncated form of the city's older name ????? ??? ?????? jaza’ir bani mazghanna, "the islands of (the tribe) Bani Mazghanna", used by early medieval geographers such as al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi. Algiers is the only Algerian city with an English name different from its French name.

The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore; the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, 400 feet (122 m) above the sea. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle.